Blog and updates
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8 Apr 2020
A traffic-light strategy for getting Britain back to business
Combining epidemiology with economics is the way to get Britain back to work.
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8 Apr 2020
Bayes Theorem and the risks of anti-body tests
What are the risks of using a less-than-perfect antibody test? The question has an Oxbridge Economics interview quality to it!
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8 Apr 2020
Global Economic Crisis: Calls for debt relief for the poorest countries
There are growing calls for debt relief for the world's poorest nations in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
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8 Apr 2020
Coronavirus: How drones in Africa could become life-savers
Here is a hopeful article about the future of healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa.
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7 Apr 2020
Who benefits most from online retailing, consumers or businesses? [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
One of the (many) issues for A level students over the coming weeks and months is likely to be keeping momentum as they prepare for university. Perhaps we can help a little with that, by publishing...
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7 Apr 2020
Game Theory, stockpiling, and rational behaviour [Year 13 Enrichment Task]
In this research task we challenge students to consider how game theory might help explain the panic buying of toilet rolls ahead of the UK COVOD-19 lockdown.
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7 Apr 2020
Young and low earners suffer most from the pandemic
Torsten Bell of the Resolution Foundation makes the case that the coronavirus outbreak, as ever, is going to affect the young and low earners worst.
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7 Apr 2020
The global economic centre of gravity will continue to shift after the crisis
Today's article of choice considers how the centre of gravity has been changing in the world economy.
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6 Apr 2020
Hannah unleashes her economics creativity!
Hannah Parkinson, an A-Level economics student has been reading the Economist voraciously over many months to deepen her passion for the subject.
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5 Apr 2020
Virus lays bare the frailty of the social contract
This is a remarkable editorial from the Financial Times which argues that the coronavirus is exacerbating existing inequalities and hitting those in the most precarious jobs and industries hardest.
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4 Apr 2020
Do highly leveraged universities deserve a bail out?
My article today comes from the Financial Times where Camilla Cavendish asks if universities are too big to fail?
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2 Apr 2020
Will coronavirus reverse globalisation?
This is today's must read article, for my money. It suggests that one of the consequences of this could be a retreat from hyper-globalisation.
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2 Apr 2020
Time to make amends to the low-paid essential worker
This is a searing and timely call to arms from Sarah O'Connor in the Financial Times.
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1 Apr 2020
The maths of epidemic models gives rise for cautious optimism
How long should the lockdown last? Should it be tightened or relaxed?
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31 Mar 2020
Adam Tooze: The current financial and economic crisis
Adam Tooze, Professor of Economic History at Colombia University ran a seminar this evening on the global economic crisis. Here are some of his key points.
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30 Mar 2020
Explaining the FT's Coronavirus trajectory tracker
This is a really well explained and important video looking at how the Financial Times is tracking the coronavirus spread by country and sub-region / city.
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30 Mar 2020
Coronavirus: Fighting the Downturn
My article of the day is the latest Monday briefing from Ian Stewart and his team at Deloitte.
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27 Mar 2020
Why this crisis is a test of our capacity to adapt
My article of the day comes from Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist, columnist for the FT and presenter of More or Less on Radio 4.
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26 Mar 2020
‘Economics in Ten’ Podcasts and distance learning for Economics students
In this special blog, Gavin Simpson writes about the wonderful Economics in Ten podcast series. Well worth a read!
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